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...went to Harvard in the same class (1900) with, three other young men who grew up to be eminent U. S. diplomats by profession, William R. Castle Jr., Robert Woods Bliss, Peter Augustus Jay. Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After college a classmate and a fellow Porcellian, Bayard Cutting, elder brother of the late Senator from New Mexico, went to London as private secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph H. Choate. Tiring of diplomacy, Cutting in 1903 suggested Phillips as his successor. Two years later William Woodville Rockhill, U. S. Minister to China, met the suave and elegant...
Present at the funeral of Robert Homans '94 yesterday afternoon were the Harvard Corporation, the Board of Overseers, the Porcellian Club, and Committees from the Boston Bar Association and the Class...
...parties shall be submitted to arbitration in such form as the Advisory Committee shall determine. Clubs Affected by Rules Governing New Membership A. D. Club Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Alpha Tau Sigma Club Owl Club Argo Club Phoenix S. K. Club Delphic Club Pi Eta Society Digamma Club Porcellian Club D. U. Fraternity S. A. E. Fraternity D. U. Club Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Fly Club Spee Club Fox Club Styx Club Iroquois Club Tau Delta Phi Fraternity Kappa Sigma Fraternity Zeta Beta...
...There is certainly a place in Harvard for a real Communist Club, and although members of such a body might not be elected on masse to the Porcellian Club. Certainly there would be no objection on he part of the University. Freedom of speech and thought and action are prerogatives of both Harvard students and professors...
...Porcellian ("Pork") Club, oldest (1790) of Harvard's "finals," was founded by undergraduates who sat around talking literature and eating roast pig (porcellus). Its reputation springs from the wealth and social swank of its membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...